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Badges.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Penalties.

CHAPTER LI.

OF CONSTABLES' BADGES.

§ 1. All constables of the city of New York shall hereafter, when on duty, wear a badge, as hereinafter provided and designated.

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§ 2. The badge mentioned in the preceding section shall be made of German silver (plain) bearing the words Constable," and the number of the Ward from which the constables respectively are elected, engraved thereon; as "Constable, First Ward," "Constable, Second Ward," &c.; the said badge to be round, and not to exceed two and a half inches in diameter.

§ 3. The said badges shall be deposited with the Mayor, to be distributed by him to the constables of the various wards of the city.

§ 4. The said badges shall be the exclusive property of the city of New York; and when any constable or constables shall resign, or be removed by death or otherwise, or his term of office expire, the said badge or badges shall be returned to the Mayor, for his or their successor or

successors.

$5. Any person or persons, not constables, found wearing the said badge, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars.

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§ 1. It shall be lawful for the Mayor of the said city Licenses. to grant licenses, under his hand and seal, to such persons as shall produce to him satisfactory evidence of their good character, to be sweepers of chimneys in the said city; and each person so licensed, shall pay therefor the sum of three dollars.

and servants

§ 2. Any person so licensed, may keep and employ so Apprentices many boys, apprentices or servants to assist him in his said business, as he may think proper; provided they are comfortably clad, and sufficiently provided with good and wholesome food, and not under eleven years of age.

§ 3. The said boys, apprentices or servants, shall not be ibid. required, by their master or employer, to work before six o'clock in the forenoon, nor after four o'clock in the afternoon, during the winter season; nor before five o'clock in the forenoon, nor after six o'clock in the afternoon, during the residue of the year.

§ 4. No person so licensed as aforesaid, shall employ Ibid. any boy under the age of eleven years, as a chimney sweeper, or shall omit or neglect to feed or clothe any of the boys, apprentices or servants in his employ, as above directed, or require or permit them, or any of them, to work at other hours than are above prescribed, under the penalty of five dollars, and the forfeiture of his license, for every such offense.

§ 5. No person, without such license as aforesaid, or Penalty. after the forfeiture thereof as aforesaid, shall carry on the

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Responsible for fires.

Regulation of
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Fees of Chim

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business of a chimney sweeper, or shall suffer or permit any boy, apprentice or servant belonging to him or in his employ, to sweep any chimney in this city, under the penalty of five dollars.

§ 6. Every person so licensed, shall be subject to all penalties that may be incurred by any chimney taking fire, within one month after having been swept by them respectively, or by any boy, apprentice or servant in their employ.

$7. Each license granted as aforesaid, shall be numbered; and every person so licensed shall cause the boys, apprentices or servants in his employ, to wear a badge, upon which shall be inscribed the number of his license; and if any such boy, apprentice or servant shall at any time be found out of the house or premises of his master, or employer, and not wearing such badge, his said master or employer shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars.

§ 8. The licensed chimney sweepers of the said city shall be authorized to demand and receive the following sums for each and every chimney swept by them, or by their boys, apprentices or servants respectively, that is to say: for every chimney from the uppermost floor of any house, twelve and a half cents; for every chimney from the next floor below, fifteen cents; for every chimney from the next floor below, eighteen cents; for every chimney from the next floor below, twenty-one cents; for every chimney from the next floor below, twenty-eight cents; for every chimney from the next floor below, thirty-seven and a half cents; and where a Franklin stove, coal grate or jack are used in any fire-place, twelve and a half cents may be demanded, and received in addition to the abovementioned sums.

Chimney

§ 9. It shall be lawful for the Mayor of the said city Inspectors of from time to time, to appoint one of the licensed chimney Sweepers. sweepers, to be called "The Inspector of Chimney Sweepers," who shall hold his office for the term of one year, subject, however, to removal by the said Mayor, and whose duty it shall be to see that this law be duly observed by the said licensed chimney sweepers and all others, and to report the names of offenders to the Attorney of the Corporation.

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§ 10. It shall be the duty of every sweeper of chimneys, Sweeps to relicensed as aforesaid, to report to the Mayor the names of employees. all persons employed by him for the purpose of sweeping chimneys, and also the names of all such as shall quit his employment. And if any person so licensed shall neglect so to do for the space of one week, he shall forfeit and pay five dollars.

Licenses.

§ 11. A register shall be kept in the Mayor's office, of Register of the name and place of residence of every person licensed as aforesaid.

§ 12. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to Provision. those persons who use machinery in sweeping chimneys, for hire, as well as to those who sweep by other methods.

Newspapers to be annual

CHAPTER LIII.

OF CORPORATION ADVERTISEMENTS.

§ 1. Newspapers printed and published in the city of ly designated New York, shall be annually designated by the Common Council, in which to publish the official proceedings of each Board of the Common Council, all notices of propositions before the Common Council, involving an assess ment upon citizens, and for such period as the ordinances of the Common Council in the discretion of the particular department, shall prescribe, and all resolutions passed by the Common Council involving assessments.

What shall be published.

§ 2. There shall be published in said newspapers all notices of the Board of Supervisors, Board of Health, Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, the messages of the Mayor, and all notices of city and county officers required to be published by law or ordinance, which the said Boards or officers may deem it proper to publish, by virtue of their offices, the expense whereof is to be paid from the funds of the city, except the advertisements for the sale of property for taxes, and the redemption notices in relation to the same; and the proprietors of said newspapers shall agree to furnish, when required, affidavits of the due publication of any notices, ordinances, or advertisements, aforesaid, which are made necessary, or which they may deem are made necessary by law to be published.

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